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This section of the FBI's 1947 flying disc file (62-HQ-83894) collects correspondence between FBI field offices and Army Air Forces intelligence. It includes a Portland prospector's claim to have seen disc objects near Mount Adams on June 24, 1947, an Air Force report on the August 1 crash near Kelso, Washington that killed investigators Davidson and Brown, and the Maury Island claims of Dahl and Crisman. Other items are an MIT analysis of cast iron fragments from New Hampshire, the A. C. Urie Twin Falls sighting, and the Bureau's decision to stop its disc investigations.
From the source:Release of 2026-05-08 Incident: N/A, N/A. The FBI's 62-HQ-83894 case file includes investigative records, eyewitness testimonies, and public reports concerning Unidentified Flying Objects and flying discs documented between June 1947 and July 1968. The records include high-profile incident accounts, photographic evidence from sites like Oak Ridge, TN, and technical proposals regarding potential propulsion systems. Additional topics include convention programs, researcher accounts, and extensive media coverage from the period. This file is partially posted on FBI vault with more redactions and some pages missing. Included here is the complete case file with several newly declassified pages and only minor redactions.
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•.. • Mr. and Mrs . NO~h Loran, Jtah , advised that they viewed flying objects travelTiii clockwise above the city at annrox imately l0 : 30 p .m. the evening of Sente~ber 8, 1947. They infor med that they first believed the objeots to be liP-hts of e.n airrylane . However, these objects seemed to chane:e in for.nati on and aooeared to be similar to a gr oup of moving stars. Mr. and Mrs . HALL believed these objects were traveling much faster than \birds. It was determined that Mr . and Mrs . H. P . Ai-mERSON and Mrs. BESSIE HFNDRICKS were not available for interview: Captain B. E. NAS')N, Military IntelliP-ence Division , Fort Do•..tglas, Salt Lake City, Utah, is beinr advised by letter of the res~lts of this investi P-ation. In view of the indefinite information fur nished relacive to this matter, no further investiP-ation is being conducted by this office . SMK: L~S AMSD
Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 190 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.